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It doesn't seem so. I run LMDE 2- MATE in a VM and in another thread (from the same OP: viewtopic.php?f=236&t=265318&p=1440821& ... e#p1440821) I tried to install snapd. I could do so neither from a terminal nor from Synaptic. So I wonder whether snapd is available for LMDE2 at all.

I suppose that's one of the ironies of life, doing the wrong thing at the right moment -C.C.